Aye, We Hardly Knew Ye: Brian McWilliams (Spam Kings) Moving On

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

I'm sorry to see Brian McWilliams shutting down the
Spam Kings blog -- I have personally enjoyed Brian's
exposès very much.

Today, Brian writes his last entry on the Spam Kings
blog:

[snip]

Three years ago, around the end of April 2003, I started getting hammered with annoying spams from a mysterious company 
called Amazing Internet Products, which was advertising human growth hormone, government grants, and penis pills.

Those hundreds of spams led me to write a couple articles in the summer of 2003 about Amazing Internet's amazing 
profits and the company's colorful co-founder, former neo-Nazi leader Davis Wolfgang Hawke.

My research eventually grew into my book Spam Kings, which was published by O'Reilly in October 2004. Around the same 
time, I launched this blog dedicated to the book and to news in the world of kingpin spammers.

I've enjoyed the past 18 months of trading notes about the spam scene. But due to the demands of a new 
(non-spam-related) job, I'm going to have to pull back from blogging and probably won't be posting any further updates. 
I'm also likely to disable comments and trackbacks, since I won't have time to clean up after the blog spammers.

[snip]

More:
http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/04/moving_on.html

Bon Voyage.

- ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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